-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hal writes:

One thing I do notice on reading the discussion in can.politics is the fact that despite the disclaimers in the message headers, some people took this as a forgery attempt on my part. I wonder if it might be necessary to insert disclaimers into the body of the message as anon.penet.fi does, at least for messages to known mail-to-news gateways.

There was also a misperception that my remailer was an official effort endorsed by Portal (again, despite the disclaimers). Note that it was they who were contacted, not me (yet). This might suggest that it will not be possible to cleanly separate the remailer operators and service providers when problems like this arise. Both may end up being hassled (time will tell whether I am).

This is all too familiar to me. Although I still haven't heard the official line on the shutdown of Underdog following the Scythe spam, at least some people locally (including, crucially, my advisor) received the impression that I had forged (and authored !) the offending news articles in spite of the disclaimer headers. Furthermore, the spam might not have been a fatal blow if not for the fact that some people ignored the "complaints to <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>" header and wrote directly to root or postmaster here. Everyone who actually wrote to me came away satisfied that I was taking appropriate action, as far as I could tell. I'll take this opportunity to reiterate that I'm no longer operating a remailer at this address. I wrote to Matt Ghio about a week ago asking him to remove my address from remailer-pings@chaos.bsu.edu, but I suppose he's busy with school these days. That list remains frozen with information dating from Nov.22. Karl Barrus mentioned something about chaos.bsu.edu having moved to chaos.taylored.com; perhaps this is part of the reason for the snag ? - - -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server "We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines; I know that that ain't allowed" --Talking Heads - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQCVAwUBLuv2yGf7YYibNzjpAQF/GQP/VNo06+qqYvQBhU0xAO+TpHx44OJX6dKI HWhW+zIA6Xp/UYKsql8Mfg7dhxesJ4JSdqkkjY8znqUrwp/CnOTo3qql0W/EOxYt l3f7kcHJWvr/gPO/rvtMgWbR2GRjkhaCa62ny/tgV+IGCKxDqCi25A4Y2x23KFDB JgiLP4c2hSc= =34zm - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLuv4ACoZzwIn1bdtAQEkZwF/dL0lroedGXvGlNJFJ5W6Z0dm83yefrzq 9aRFW9Xh+2/cjvb5+OMY0Ol1uEnU5UaM =ygWU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----